Need reading glasses...getting old...darnit

[DocHeb]

I have progressive bifocals and they have worked out well, but be careful - there are some brands that work well, some don't. I have been very happy with the Varilux brand.

 

[texbaylea]

I have worn glasses for 70 years so they are second nature with me. I wear tri-focals but prefer the discrete focal length types rather than the progressives.

I have found that for about the last 10 years or more I can read the laptop's screen with out my glasses except when tired. I have a pair of prescription sunglasses in a case in my pocket at all times and switch when I need to. Rarely lose either pair.

Vernon

 

[scott_vt]

Good Afternoon Kyle,
I got my first pair of 1.25 glasses when I was 50, Im 58 now and still wear the 1.25 magnification, and I dont need distance glasses. So i guess Im pretty lucky that way !

Whenever I need another pair I just go down to Ocean State Job Lot and for a few bucks I have another set. They are all strategically placed, one set for the kitchen table in Ct, one set for the kitchen table in Vt, one set for my PU truck and probablly another set for my easy chair !

As one of the other guys mentioned, get a pair that makes you look really intelligent !

 

[Wis Bang]

I just got the progressives. Just short of 55 and after 12 years of using readers; I got to the point where I now needed somthing all the time.

It got to the point that some contrast/lighting was a real issue. Dim restaraunts w/ red or green print become unreadable and distance vision was getting bad too; I used to read the roadsigns from the backseat b/4 my parents to the point where I was almost too late to make the turn by the time I focused on the road name sign. I read the paper by holding it in the hot spot of the lamp & started grabing large print books at the library.

It is good to see again, read the controls on the dash, etc...

I opted for a set of Ray Ban avatiators in the same progressive lens and polaroid, great for fishing.

Of course my wife went forthe same lenses so we dropped a good amount for everything.

 

[tawilson]

I started the same route when I hit my forties. All of a sudden it dawned on me I couldn't hold the funny papers far enough away to read them. Store bought reading glasses, then prescription bifocals that I put on when I needed them, then finally started wearing them fulltime. Five years ago I decided I wanted to try contacts. The first set was made so one was for distance and one for reading, with neither one being perfect. The next ones were a mulitfocal which I liked except I needed reading glasses for computer work. Now they have come out with a multifocal that fits my needs perfect for everything. My best results have come with Walmarts prescription center. For a $100 fee they did the exam and kept hooking me up with contacts until I found one I liked.

 

[tommu56]

I had Lasic done so I wouldn't need them all the time I coulden't find the bathroom at night with out glasses.
Now i need them for reading only

Now I just have reading glasses bifocals no RX in top reading in bottom.
Work pays for a pair a year keep the new pair for good and the year old ones go to work (pssst don't tell them) I guess my wife is right I am frugal on some stuff.

tom

 

[allis180]

I enjoy the various forums on this site. Lots of great advice from great people. I too have earned the honor of wearing bifocals.

Someone once told me "God takes your eyes first so you will have a harder time seeing what is going to happen to the rest of your body later".

Todd

 

[RobertBrown]

I buy them 5 pairs at a time form the dollar store and I usually find one that becomes the favored pair.

I'll bet I have 20 or more that I bought at the "everythings a dollar" store. I got tired of looking for them so I have them in every room, the shop, garage, truck, office and bathroom. I use the 1.25 or 1.5. I've used them for years and my eyes haven't got much worse. It's really frustrating when you are trying to look at a map in low light in your vehicle. That's when I wish I was 22 again.

 

[dooleysm]

When you're 22 you don't need a map, you already know everything!

 

[jinman]

I must have lost, or brutalized beyond repair, at least 50 pairs of reading glasses in the past 17 years. The only saving grace is they are fairly cheap. My favorite "trick" is to leave a pair in my t-shirt pocket when I am working in the woods with my tractor. Somehow, brush always finds a way to snatch them out of my pocket and sling them to the ground precisely in front of one of my tractor tires. Like sunglasses, the more I pay for them, the quicker I lose them.

Kyle, I'll tell AARP to send you some literature. You've reached that time of life.